William Hazlitt 
View of the English Stage or a Series of Dramatic Criticisms 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. This edition of Hazlitt’s View of the English Stage contains the whole of that book as first issued in 1818. The articles were selected by the author from his contributions to various newspapers, as he states in his preface, and were reprinted with the very slightest revision from the papers in which they first appeared, but with considerable omissions. They have been compared for this edition with the original newspapers, and those portions which were omitted in 1818 have been supplied between square brackets. The author’s own notes are given: those which were in the periodical and in the reprint are marked Original Note; those which were in the paper but not in the volume are marked Note in (with the name of the journal); and those which first appeared in 1818 are marked W. H. The dates at the head of the articles are those of the original publication, as that plan was adopted with more or less accuracy by the author.<br><br>Many other contributions of Hazlitt to these newspapers have been identified with confidence almost amounting to certainty; only two of them are printed in the Appendix to this volume.